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TITLE

Chicago's Edgewater Medical Center to Close After Sale Falls Through

AUTHOR(S)

Carvlin, Elizabeth

PUB. DATE

December 2001

SOURCE

Bond Buyer;12/7/2001, Vol. 338 Issue 31280, p36

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports on the possibility of closure of Edgewater Medical Center after the failure of a deal to purchase the hospital and its sister facility Grant Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Financial crisis of the hospitals; Reasons cited for financial crisis of the hospitals; Reference to previous efforts to sell the hospitals.

ACCESSION #

7424796

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